penitent

About 0.76 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one's sins or offenses; feeling sincere guilt.
2. adjective Doing penance.
3. noun One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
4. noun One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
5. noun One under the direction of a confessor.

Similar words

contrite repentant penitential sorry remorseful rueful magdalen guilt-ridden compunctious ashamed

Often followed by

and sinner thief to for is in sinners was

Word family

penitently penitents